Club Champoinships round 2 – The Grafman

We have now had the 2nd race of the 2016 Club championships which was the Grafman middle distance race which was also the British age group championship race

The race was held at Grafham water and what was advertised as a fast and flat course which it was if you ignored the hills!-we had a great turnout with 8 club members taking on a real early season test over this distance

The race attracted a 1000 athletes,the newly implemented rolling swim start wasn’t a great success making the swim and particually the first buoy challenging,The Sun came out and the wind stayed away for the bike leg which made for a nice ride ,however the sun made it particually warm on the run which resulted in a few people ending up with a nice tri suit tan

Kevin Higby led the men home in a fantastic 5 hrs 10mins to take max points ,we had a real close battle for the next few places with Andrew Screech 5 hrs 15,Andy Garton 5 hrs 16 and Jez Pugh 5 hrs 17 all puhing hard on the run ,Andy keen was next in at 6 hrs 3 and then Steve Goodlad 6 Hrs 6mins

Marianne Lee took max points for the ladies in 5hrs 43 mins in a close battle with Verity Allsopp who finished in 5 hrs 48 mins